Alfie John: > On Mon, Mar 30, 2015, at 10:01 AM, Steven Schear wrote: >> Looks like Australia has banned use of my idea. >> >> http://boingboing.net/2015/03/26/australia-outlaws-warrant-cana.html >> >> If its true that a man's status can be measured by his enemies.. then >> I've taken a position at the top of the cypherpunks heap :) > > How about the reverse? As the point of canaries is to let people know a > warrant is in place while thinking that you're not breaking any laws by > telling them (good luck), hypothetically why not just be up front and > tell people that a warrant is in place via a tor and a hidden service > (let's call it WarrantWatch). Each post is a message from an admin of a > website saying that a warrant is in place, with the message being signed > via the website's TLS private key for verification. > > Alfie >
So, you're suggesting that instead of going into a legal 'gray area', website operators should simply obviously violate the law and then publish a non-repudiable cryptographic proof of their lawbreaking. Am I missing something here? Is the idea to get everyone flouting the law and thereby render it ineffectual, or is it just April Fools? Andrew
